We stayed one evening in the beautiful anchorage of Palaĉe on the island of Mljet. It is in a national forest and most of the shoreline is wooded. In the morning it was very calm and the water was still. I think this is the first time we have had glassy-still water in the morning so I got a few pictures before it got all stirred up. There was a neat old castle on the island. By the time we got to shore the sun was down so I only had the artificial lighting to get any pictures. One turned out fair enough and I turned it into black and white to enhance the spooky effect. While walking around town we spotted a rental agency. They had a couple of vehicles that caught my eye. One was a furry (literally furry) car and the other was a matching scooter. It was something I'd never run across before and thought it was pretty funny.
We ate dinner that night at a place advertising pizza because it was cheap. The other restaurants in the cove looked great but were expensive. Most of the meals were listed at least 200 kunas. I'll let you figure that out if you care to. I think we ended up sitting in the locals' seating area on the porch of the house instead of the tourist seating down by the water. We had an angry, busy waiter and service took a long time. By the end of a delicious pizza the waiter had settled down and gotten over whatever was making him so up tight. We eventually got him to joke around with us a little.
We left Mljet early in the morning and headed over to Korcula. We planned to make it only a lunch stop. It was not very far and we wanted to make a bit more distance but it looked like a very interesting place to stop. The "modern" part of city (still hundreds of years old) surrounded the cove that we anchored in. It was quite a busy place, especially compared to Mljet. The real attraction for me was the old part of town.
We have often found old walled cities tucked within the more recent construction, Kotor was a good example of such a city. Korcula was such a place only slightly different. The walled old city extended out on a peninsula and the wall and guard towers are still intact. Inside these old cities the streets are very narrow, sometimes more like sidewalks. The shops and restaurants are closely packed in winding alleyways. Many times the physical building of a restaurant is too small to serve meals so they put tables out where ever they can fit them in the streets. Another way they serve customers is by placing cushions on public benches. If you take one of their cushions then you are their customer. Other areas open up into public plazas within the city. There are usually bigger easting establishments and cart vendors in the plazas. I actually got lost in Kotor trying to re-locate which plaza I left Charlie in. The streets are usually not straight or labeled in any way. I'll post some inner-city street pictures soon.
We ate dinner that night at a place advertising pizza because it was cheap. The other restaurants in the cove looked great but were expensive. Most of the meals were listed at least 200 kunas. I'll let you figure that out if you care to. I think we ended up sitting in the locals' seating area on the porch of the house instead of the tourist seating down by the water. We had an angry, busy waiter and service took a long time. By the end of a delicious pizza the waiter had settled down and gotten over whatever was making him so up tight. We eventually got him to joke around with us a little.
We left Mljet early in the morning and headed over to Korcula. We planned to make it only a lunch stop. It was not very far and we wanted to make a bit more distance but it looked like a very interesting place to stop. The "modern" part of city (still hundreds of years old) surrounded the cove that we anchored in. It was quite a busy place, especially compared to Mljet. The real attraction for me was the old part of town.
We have often found old walled cities tucked within the more recent construction, Kotor was a good example of such a city. Korcula was such a place only slightly different. The walled old city extended out on a peninsula and the wall and guard towers are still intact. Inside these old cities the streets are very narrow, sometimes more like sidewalks. The shops and restaurants are closely packed in winding alleyways. Many times the physical building of a restaurant is too small to serve meals so they put tables out where ever they can fit them in the streets. Another way they serve customers is by placing cushions on public benches. If you take one of their cushions then you are their customer. Other areas open up into public plazas within the city. There are usually bigger easting establishments and cart vendors in the plazas. I actually got lost in Kotor trying to re-locate which plaza I left Charlie in. The streets are usually not straight or labeled in any way. I'll post some inner-city street pictures soon.
